By Pat Mcivean
Staff Writer
A detailed, comprehensive, 44-page report recommending substantial improvements for the Trojan Bookstore and its facilities was submitted Thursday to the External and Environmental Affairs Committee at a regular meeting.
The enlargement of the present space of the bookstore, the improvement of the training programs for store personnel, the reduction of the time needed for ordering of textbooks, the reduction of theft and the improvement of personal book orders were the major recommendations by a task force investigating the problems of the store.
The task force, which was chaired by Gerald Larue, a religion professor, made both immediate and long-range recommendations to the committee, whose job is to identify the problems and pass them on to the executive board of the President’s Advisory Council. The mechanics of the implementations are not the concern of the committee.
The committee, chaired by William Perkins, psychology professor, began to review the recommendations, and after considerable comment, it was decided to invite Steve Crossland, bookstore manager, and Larue to the next meeting Thursday. Further review of the report was also suggested by Perkins.
The task force, appointed last May, put in several hundred man-hours, accord-
Bookstore improvement report submitted for consideration
ing to Perkins, and distributed questionnaires to faculty, staff and students.
“There is a clear need for more space. Space in the present bookstore is totally inadequate,” Larue stated in the report. “Books spill into the aisles and are stacked in heaps. Exit space leading to the cashiers is inadequate. Basement storage is crowded and unsafe. One shelf did indeed collapse and if anyone had been underneath it, there surely would have been injury. Instead of a spacious, well-ordered store where customers might browse in comfort, the present bookstore conveys the impression of an over-crowded shop with makeshift arrangements.”
According to Crossland, present space in the bookstore totals 30,855 square feet, with 11,810 square feet used for selling, 4.493 square feet for office space and 14,872 square feet for warehouse, shipping, receiving and miscellaneous uses.
The report suggests a total of 64,000 square feet for the central facility, with an additional 20,000 to 30,000 square feet for satellite stores which include the health science store, art pantry, dental
school bookstore, civic center bookstore, smoke shop and an external program area for gift catalogue and mail order book sales.
In the central facility, the task force suggests 29,000 square feet for selling space, 10,000 square feet for offices, accounting department and free space, and 25,000 square feet for storage, shipping, receiving and loading dock.
The report stated that the university should move the pharmacy, now located in the basement of the Student Union, to the Student Health Center, which is already crowded, according to its director, Addie Klotz. The report also suggested closing the barbershop, which is under university management, and encouraging private enterprise to open a barbershop and beauty salon in University Village. This would allow the present offices on the main floor level to be moved downstairs. Additional space would also be needed for storage areas in the dangerously over-crowded bookstore basement.
Regarding personnel problems, the task force s^s there is a clear need for an improved training program for all
employees that would stress familiarity with the various departments of the bookstore, knowledge of the different department heads and where they can be found, knowledge- of the different book sections and instruction in prompt and courteous service to customers. An improved training program has been in effect, according to Crossland, and a committee member verified this account.
In addition to tabling the bookstore report, the committee also put aside a set of three policy recommendations regarding the raising of morale until the May 12th meeting. One recommendation, issued by Nancee Cortes, director ofthe Community Schools of performing arts, and Steve Gutierrez, a student, called for including emeritus professors in the university directory, provided they were still active in the university, either on a teaching, counseling or social basis.
The two other recommendations by Cortes and Gutierrez called for a more complete in-house listing and directory of all faculty and staff, including TAs, research assistants and others, and the third policy change calls for the listing of all awards received by a student in the commencement program. The committee said that some of the awards should be included in the separate programs printed by the individual schools for use in ceremonies following the university program.
Daily ip Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXXI, Number 49
Los Angeles, California
Friday, April 29, 1977
Senate election brings over 2,400 students out to vote
High interest in this year’s Student Senate and two perfect sunny days caused a much higher turnout of voters in Wednesday’s and Thursday’s senate elections than officials of the elections committee had hoped for.
The voting ended Thursday at 5 p.m. and committee members were busy counting votes until 1 a.m., and hoping to have results available by noon today.
More than 2,400 students voted, with
1,500	on Wednesday and 900 on Thursday. The total number is about 17% of the student body.
The large number (66) of candidates vying for the 16 senate seats caused high interest and urged more people to vote, according to Jerel Yamamoto, chairman of the Joint Elections Committee.
“It is way higher than we had expected. It’s going great,” Yamamoto said as he rushed from one polling place to another Thursday trying to make sure each area had enough ballots and were properly manned.
Also on the ballot was a referendum calling for the recognition of the Student Senate as the official voice of the students when dealing in matters with the administration.
As candidates rushed around putting up more posters wherever there was space left, and urged more people to vote, the election officials tried to find the reasons forthe high turnout.
“The coverage in the Daily Trojan helped a lot,” one official said. Many students said the candidate statements printed in Wednesday’s edition of the Daily Trojan helped them make their decisions. Also, voters, of course, were influenced by the fact that their friends were running for a senate spot from one of the four areas: the Row, the independent community, the residence halls and the commuter group.
Adam Bezark, a freshman who is an interdivisional major, said he was influenced in voting by the candidate’s statements in the Daily Trojan.
“I got more literature stuffed under my door (in a residence hall) and read more posters stuck on trees and poles than I wanted to. I tried to hide from some people who were trying to tell me who to vote for. I only voted for one person, (but he had a chance to vote for three) because I read all the statements and found only one that was reasonable,” Berzart said.
Another student, who asked not to be identified, said her friends who were running were her choices for senators from the residence halls. She said the posters should have been posted sooner. But Yamamoto said the campaign period officially started last Friday and candidates had to have their posters approved by the committee.
$17,000 in bowl profits received
By Mike Simpson
Staff Writer
Approximately $170,000 was received by the athletic department as its share of the proceeds from the 1977 Rose Bowl game. The total income of the event was more than $3 8 million.
The $170,000 figure was reached after all expenses were paid; the remaining proceeds were divided in half between the conferences of the participating teams and then split equally among the schools in each conference, said Virgil Lubberden. associate director of athletics here, and resident manager of the Rose Bowl.
Game management and bowl rental were the major expenses paid before the two conferences received their shares, which Lubberden said amounted to more than $750,000. The exact amount divided among the Pacific Athletic Conference and the Big Ten Conference was $3,128,666. he said.
All of the Pacific Athletic Conference colleges received an equal share of the proceeds, but only after USC received approximately $190,000 to pay for expenses involved with actual participation in the Rose Bowl game, Lubberden said.
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DT photo by Paul Rodriguez
Wild birds in student’s hand worth a free meal, safe home
By Riccardo Forrest
SoCal Editor
Robin Holland is for the birds.
For the past ten years, she has received, healed, fed. loved, retrained and let loose thousands of wild birds. Holland, a senior in public relations and head of the University Speakers Committee, is an honorary member of the Audubon Society. People who call up the Audubon Society or their local veterinarian asking about wild birds they have found are often referred to Holland. That is how she manages to receive her annual total of 500 birds a year.
“I’ve always had animals,” she said, showing me two newer birds, a straggly mockingbird and a starling with a broken leg.
“I’ve had everything from coons to possums — all the way up to ocelots. I'm even named after an animal. Robin isn’t my real name though. It’s Roberta. My Robin nickname comes from a pet bird I had as a child.”
As of now, Holland has only ten birds left over from the beginning of the bird season. She has a crow, a seagull, a robin, some quail and she's expecting a shipment of loggerhead shrikes.
She is sent these birds by various types of people. The reason she is referred to by bird societies and veterinarians is because eight out of every ten of her wild pets stay alive.
When the birds are very young they have to be fed every twenty minutes, which means Holland has to take her birds with her everywhere, including her classes.
“I’ve been thrown out of classes because of my birds.’’ she commented with a smile. “The sparrows are especially noisy.”
“They have to learn again how to get food for themselves, how to maintain a sustained flight and to be afraid of anything that moves. I usually wind up chasing them around with a towel.”
Such is the lifestyle of a woman who turned from a veterinarian major to Public Relations. Such are the ways of Holland, the bird lady of USC.